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36 of 2003
Rights derived 87. (1) Where a person at the filing date or, where
from prior
applicable, the priority date, of the patent application—
manufacture or
use.
(a) was in good faith making the product or using the
process in Sri Lanka which is the subject of the
invention claimed in such application ;
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
LICENCE CONTRACTS
90. For the purposes of this Part licence contract means Interpretation.
any contract by which the owner of a patent (hereinafter
referred to as “the licensor”) grants to another person or
enterprise (hereinafter referred to as the “the licensee”) a
licence to do all or any of the acts referred to in paragraph
(a) of subsection (1) and subsection (3) of section 84.
91. (1) A licence contract shall be in writing signed by Form and record
or on behalf of the contracting parties. of licence
contract.
(2) Upon a request in writing signed by or on behalf of
the contracting parties, the Director-General shall, on
payment of the prescribed fee, record in the register such
particulars relating to the contract as the parties thereto might
wish to have so recorded :
Provided that the parties shall not be required to disclose
or have recorded any other particulars relating to the said
contract.